This book review is a web exclusive for the Spring 2026 issue of The Independent Review. In the acknowledgements at the end of The History of Money, David McWilliams writes, “Opinions and errors are ...

Pretend, please, I’m on the ballot,” said President Trump. It has become a common refrain at rallies, and it is how he kicked off the Republican midterm ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Fall 2025 issue of The Independent Review. The market socialists countered that socialism doesn’t need market prices to efficiently allocate resources.

This book review is a web exclusive for the Fall 2026 issue of The Independent Review. Over the past decade, American trust in institutions of higher education has eroded considerably. So, it might ...

Proposition 40 is called a one-time tax, but the way it is funded and California’s tax history suggest it will last. People adapt to a tax over time, so a ...

Fidel Castro was born just over one hundred years ago. The Communist Party, of course, has organized major celebrations while ...

When President Trump gets frustrated with other countries—friendly or adversarial—he tends to threaten them, from Greenland ...

California’s billionaire tax is being sold to voters as a way to make the state’s wealthiest residents pay a fairer share, ...

The World Health Organization declared an end to the COVID-19 public-health emergency more than three years ago. Its deaths, ...

Alvaro Vargas Llosa is a Senior Fellow of The Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute, which he directed from 2005 to 2009. He has been a nationally syndicated columnist for the ...

Automated license plate readers like Flock cameras have been quietly appearing on roadsides all over the U.S. Florida is no ...

One of the most useful things to know about modern politics is that no reform ever happens until it becomes a threat to the re-election chances of ...